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From: msmiller@glass.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
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Subject: Re: Flight simulators for the Mac
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Date: 12 Feb 90 19:07:19 GMT
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In article <11393@nlm-mcs.arpa> sandro@nlm-mcs.arpa (Michael D'Alessandro) writes:
>I'm interested in purchasing a couple of flight simulators for my Macs (a Plus
>and a IIci) and would like comments from any users of the following flight
>simulators:
>
>Falcon
>Microsoft JET
>Microsoft Flight Simulator
>Chuck Yeagers's Flight Simulator
>P-51 Mustang
>
>First - are there any Mac flight simulators besides these?
>
>Next - do any of these support color on a Mac II?

MS Flight Sim is kind of disapointing. P-51 is a very good simulation
but is wireframe drawing only. I think it now supports the MacII but I
don't think it runs color. Falcon has a lot of bells and whistles but
the air-to-air combat animation really bags it and the thing is almost
impossible to land. The fun part of Falcon (for me anyway) is the
ground-attack stuff - lotsa neat air-to-mud weapons. Of course, this
isn't what the F-16 was initially designed to do.

The other option is Air Warrior which is available on GEnie. This is a
real-time multi-player WW2 air-combat simulator which will run in
color on a MacII. You play against other people from all over the
country in real-time. The flight simulation is OK (i.e. it has
problems) but the GAME takes months and months to master because you
play against people. The downside is that at $6/hr AW can gobble VISA
cards at an enormous rate. Also, if GEnie is having a bad day, AW
becomes almost unplayable due to network delays.

    -MSM
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